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Idols of the People The late P.R.S. Moorey (Formerly Acting Director, Keeper of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Fellow of the British Academy)

Idols of the People By The late P.R.S. Moorey (Formerly Acting Director, Keeper of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Fellow of the British Academy)

Summary

These lectures investigate the numerous miniature baked clay images from Canaan, Israel and Judah (c. 1600-600 BC). They constitute vital evidence for the imagery and domestic rituals of ordinary people, but significantly are not explicitly mentioned in the Old Testament.

Idols of the People Summary

Idols of the People: Miniature Images of Clay in the Ancient Near East by The late P.R.S. Moorey (Formerly Acting Director, Keeper of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Fellow of the British Academy)

These lectures investigate the numerous miniature baked clay images from Canaan, Israel and Judah (c. 1600-600 BC). They constitute vital evidence for the imagery and domestic rituals of ordinary people, but significantly are not explicitly mentioned in the Old Testament. These terracottas are treated as a distinctive phenomenon with roots deep in prehistory and recurrent characteristics across millennia. Attention is focused on whether or not the female representations are worshippers of unknown deities or images of known goddesses, particularly in Early Israelite religion.

Idols of the People Reviews

Idols of the People is an excellent little book, and I would even venture to say that it was Roger Moorey's best book, a best book among a number of superb publications. * Zainab Bahrani, Bibliotheca Orientalis *

Table of Contents

In the Beginning: Origins and Originating Questions ; Terracottas in Early Complex Societies: Sumer, Babylonia, Syria, Egypt, and Canaan (c. 3000-1150 BC)

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NPB9780197262801
9780197262801
0197262805
Idols of the People: Miniature Images of Clay in the Ancient Near East by The late P.R.S. Moorey (Formerly Acting Director, Keeper of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Fellow of the British Academy)
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Oxford University Press
2004-01-29
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